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Pause at the Water's Edge. Two kinds of expansion ; Manifest destiny hesitates ; The Isthmian canal question ; International rivalry in Samoa ; Toward Hawaiian annexation ; New prophets of expansion ; Expansion becomes a party issue
Dominion beyond the seas. Hawaiian annexation revived ; Civil war in Cuba ; The road to intervention ; A short war and an easy victory ; The expansionists take charge ; Spain surrenders her colonial empire ; The Senate debates imperialism ; Hawaii, Wake, and Tutuila ; Imperialism approved?
The Oceans United. The Isthmian canal question ; The Hay-Pauncefote treaties ; Nicaragua or Panama? ; Colombian dilemma ; Rooseveltian dilemma ; End of a controversy ; At last-The Danish West Indies
Caribbean Sphere of Influence. Cuba and the Platt amendment ; The Roosevelt corollary of the Monroe doctrine ; The Dominican receivership ; Intervention in Nicaragua ; Wilsonian intervention ; Haiti-The fifth protectorate ; The Haitian Treaty of 1915 ; The navy governs the Dominican Republic
The Government of Overseas Possessions: Central Administration and General Policy. Administrative machinery ; Did the constitution follow the flag? ; Self-Government in the new possessions ; The tariff in the new possessions
The Government of Overseas Possessions: The Evolution of Territorial Self-Government. Alaska ; Hawaii ; Puerto Rico ; The Philippines ; The Virgin Islands ; Guam and American Samoa ; The Panama Canal Zone
The Imperial Economy and Political By-Products. The Economics of Colonialism ; The Economy of the minor dependencies: Guam, American Samoa, the Canal Zone ; Alaska-Empty outposts ; Hawaii-Precarious paradise ; Puerto Rico-"The stricken land " ; The Virgin Islands-"Effective poorhouse" ; The economics and ethics of Philippine independence
The Retreat from Empire. The withdrawal begins ; The end of the Roosevelt corollary ; A policy "Opposed to armed intervention" ; The fruits of intervention
The Quest for Security. Pacific stepping stones ; Defenses for an island empire-Too little and too late ; Atlantic outposts ; Wartime bases in foreign lands ; The minimal requirements of security ; Territorial balance sheet, 1950
Appendix One. United States-Philippines Relations after World War II
Appendix two. Government of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.
Dominion beyond the seas. Hawaiian annexation revived ; Civil war in Cuba ; The road to intervention ; A short war and an easy victory ; The expansionists take charge ; Spain surrenders her colonial empire ; The Senate debates imperialism ; Hawaii, Wake, and Tutuila ; Imperialism approved?
The Oceans United. The Isthmian canal question ; The Hay-Pauncefote treaties ; Nicaragua or Panama? ; Colombian dilemma ; Rooseveltian dilemma ; End of a controversy ; At last-The Danish West Indies
Caribbean Sphere of Influence. Cuba and the Platt amendment ; The Roosevelt corollary of the Monroe doctrine ; The Dominican receivership ; Intervention in Nicaragua ; Wilsonian intervention ; Haiti-The fifth protectorate ; The Haitian Treaty of 1915 ; The navy governs the Dominican Republic
The Government of Overseas Possessions: Central Administration and General Policy. Administrative machinery ; Did the constitution follow the flag? ; Self-Government in the new possessions ; The tariff in the new possessions
The Government of Overseas Possessions: The Evolution of Territorial Self-Government. Alaska ; Hawaii ; Puerto Rico ; The Philippines ; The Virgin Islands ; Guam and American Samoa ; The Panama Canal Zone
The Imperial Economy and Political By-Products. The Economics of Colonialism ; The Economy of the minor dependencies: Guam, American Samoa, the Canal Zone ; Alaska-Empty outposts ; Hawaii-Precarious paradise ; Puerto Rico-"The stricken land " ; The Virgin Islands-"Effective poorhouse" ; The economics and ethics of Philippine independence
The Retreat from Empire. The withdrawal begins ; The end of the Roosevelt corollary ; A policy "Opposed to armed intervention" ; The fruits of intervention
The Quest for Security. Pacific stepping stones ; Defenses for an island empire-Too little and too late ; Atlantic outposts ; Wartime bases in foreign lands ; The minimal requirements of security ; Territorial balance sheet, 1950
Appendix One. United States-Philippines Relations after World War II
Appendix two. Government of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.